Laptop Choice?

YES! FUCKING YES! This one of the most annoying fucking things I've come across - I use this same station and I can have headphones plugged into the rear jack, headphones plugged into the front and hear sound coming from separate programmes on both AND hear a third set of audio coming from the front inbuilt speakers. What the fuck is that about?

Weirder still - say I'm using... Adobe Premiere (for example) - when I'm capturing video I can hear the sound on the capture window playing through the rear headphone jack but not the front. Then, when I'm just playing video within premiere on the timeline from a sequence, I cant hear through headphones from the rear or front jack but only through the inbuilt speakers.

This is not cool.

BAM.. it's just a driver thing. Since I installed Win7 onto an additional 10,000rpm drive I didn't have all the HP shite installed.

Install the included RealTek audio drivers and the front headphone port works.